Re: Fast HD sub £50?

Not that SATA 6Gbps will make any difference, anyway.

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Re: Fast HD sub £50?

i assumed he meant SATA 3Gbps baring in mind the £50 budget. I was never a fan of the F1 but i have found the F3 to be much quieter. I currently have 2 of the above in RAID 0 and 1 of the 2tb green F3s in my HTPC.

Never tried the Hitachi i have to admit, mainly due to the fact i dont really know anyone with experience to tell me otherwise (till now anyway) and you have to put a lot of trust in your hard drive.

Re: Fast HD sub £50?

As Terbinator & Zak have said, with a mechanical drive you can't get enough throughput to saturate the 3Gbps of SATA 2, let alone the 6Gbps of SATA 3. Something that I should know, really Which motherboard is this being attached to? Some drives have issues with the AMD SB8x0 SATA 3 controller - there's a couple of threads on here about it I think...

At the minute there's only a couple of SSD that use SATA 3 on the drive itself, and they're... well, a bit more than £50, shall we say

Re: Fast HD sub £50?

Originally Posted by wilsonian

Sorry I got confused with myself (late night early start etc) The motherboard I'm getting has SATA 6Gb/s ports. are these just for SSD units?

They're backwardly compatible, so you can plug SATA 2/1 cables and drives into them no problem. At the moment hard drives barely reach SATA 1 speeds though, so there's no need to worry about getting a specifically SATA 6Gb/s connected hard drive.

Re: Fast HD sub £50?

The SB850 on that motherboard has issues with Sammy F3 drives (or vice versa, perhaps ) - don't know if it's all F3s or just certain models / capacities - which require a firmware update to operate properly. If you go for an F3 rather than the hitachi I'd get the etailer to confirm if it has the latest firmware...